My favorite New Orleans brass band, Rebirth Brass Band, is on tour. They're playing Harpers Ferry in Allston tonight, Baltimore tomorrow, Portsmouth NH on Sunday, and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee next weekend.

I'm going tonight:

Rebirth Brass Band ( Read more... )

Years ago, I was booking a show for Molly Zenobia and Scissorkiss at the Middle East, and trying to think of an appropriate third band for the bill. I asked amadea (Scissorkiss' singer) for advice, and she responded with something like, "do you know Amanda Palmer? I really respect her work." She introduced us at a Scissokiss show both of us went to ( Read more... )

There's a great show at Harper's Ferry in Allston tonight! Sorry for the last minute notice.

• FLUTTR EFFECT, formerly known as FLUTTR - the band I've posted about most often here on cosmusic. Rock with electric marimba and electric cello! Some instrumentals, some jazzy and some prog rock, and a singer with brightly dyed hair :) One of the best ( Read more... )

Sorry for the dearth of postings, again. I don't have much time to write, but want to let those of you near Boston know that there's a PAN 9 tonight, usual place, usual time. ( More info in the PAN 9 email... )

Tonight, Boston Pop Undeground show at the Paradise lounge on Commonwealth Ave in Allston, with Mike Viola, Blue, and Paula Kelly. 18+, $8, doors at 8:00pm.

Thursday, May 20th, is the Dark Sky show I posted about, with Lucretia's Daggers, FLUTTR, and One of Us, at the Sky Bar, Somerville.

Christine Lavin has two shows in the area coming up: ( Read more... )

You Oughta Be In Pictures is tonight, but probably sold out a while ago. PAN 9 is having a performance night tonight, and they don't sell out. I won't be at either one, but here's tonight's PAN 9 announcement...PAN9, Saturday, April 10 at 9pm ( Read more... )

In May I posted about Vessela Stoyanova and two of her bands, FLUTTR and .WAV. Another Troy & Vessela band, Marimbira, is playing tonight at PAN 9 in Allston. As with the others, Marimbira features Troy on guitar and Vessela on marimba, this time with assorted percussion, bass, and a mbira, playing central African and afro-pop dance music with a ( Read more... )

The next PAN 9 is this Friday, September 12th, 9pm - late. Lovewhip is headlining, and there will be other acts including music, comedy, sketch, dance, and films.

Posting about PAN 9's June show, I wrote,

PAN 9 is a warehouse space in Allston shared by several performers and artists, and about once a month they hold a performance night (and often ( Read more... )

The Matthew Stubbs Band will be at the Boston Blues Challenge finals at Harpers Ferry in Allston, this Thursday night. Come see kit_holliday win over an even bigger audience ( Read more... )

The Matthew Stubbs band would be just another periphery-of-Boston fun but average blues band, were it not for two claims to fame: More drummers than Spinal Tap, and the fabulous kit_holliday on lead vocals ( Read more... )